Newsletter February 2008 - QED Consulting

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Welcome to our February edition of the ebulletin, we hope that you are managing to keep both your business and personal New Year’s resolutions and that the new business year has started positively. Now we are well and truly into 2008 it is time for our second ebulletin of the year and in this month’s edition we bring you some more of our highly acclaimed business articles. Firstly, as promised we have part 2 in our series of ‘boring board meeting’ articles, an insight by Jeremy Thorn into negotiation in the NHS, followed by an update on QED Consulting’s successful sub regional partnerships!

Boring Board Meetings (part 2) In Part 1 of this article, ‘Boring Board Meetings?’ we looked at the benefits of holding regular, formal board meetings. First, the law places a wide ‘fiduciary’ duty of care on Directors to safeguard both their company’s and their shareholders’ interests – and indeed also those of their employees, creditors and customers wherever there is a contractual relationship. Meeting formally as a Board is one way of ensuring such duties are considered and reviewed regularly and professionally. Read more...

Negotiation in the NHS The task of commissioning services throughout the UK health-care supply chain is becoming increasingly challenging. There are some very large sums of money at stake. Even a contract with a small District General Hospital worth may be worth at least £100 million in a year. And whereas the areas for contract negotiation were historically quite peripheral, they are now very significant. Those responsible for commissioning, especially managers with previous commercial experience of negotiating, know that there can be rich prizes to be gained for their organisations through professional bargaining. Many others however are finding that the skills now required of them are new and even quite alien. Read more...

Successful Sub Regional Partnerships QED Consulting's first event of 2008, which was hosted in partnership with Doncaster Business School, ‘An Evening with Simon Hill: Strategic Business Improvement’ was an evening not to be missed. Over 60 business colleagues gathered in the Stables at High Melton on a cold winter evening to hear a fascinating talk by Simon Hill, (Director for Business at Yorkshire Forward) about strategic business improvement and how Yorkshire is performing against the other Regional Development Agency areas. Before the networking in the bar began to flow, Simon was joined by Rowland Foote (recently appointed Doncaster College Principal) and Steve Hinton (Executive Chairman of QED Consulting) for a stimulating and challenging question and answer session. We are proud and excited to announce that the evening marked the inaugural annual ‘QED Consulting & Doncaster Business School: An evening with....’ event. Next January we will be inviting you all to our second event in partnership with Doncaster Business School… watch this space! QED Consulting would also like to take this opportunity to thank Simon for his time and for sharing his expertise with us all and to the Business School for being such wonderful hosts.

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Boring Board Meetings (part 2)

Negotiation in the NHS

Successful Sub Regional Partnerships